Hey KK,

They may not become equal at any point of time as the level of students IITs possess is no doubt better than NITs

NITs also have very good students but that is always the second choice of students in India.One would like to go to an NIT if he didn't get a good IIT

Also, the level of studies in IITs is far more wider and higher level as compared to an NIT. The network of teaching assistants in IITs is better than an NIT.

Hostels :-

Hostels in NITs are new but they are not run by the student bodies. There are no positions like Maintenance secretaries and Representatives as IITs have ( talking about IIT Delhi).

Extra Curriculars :-

The sense of competition in IITs for extra Curriculars is damn too high as compared to NITs.

There are hostel competitions and trophies in IITD which compells everyone to make efforts in Sports and Extra Curriculars.Talking of IITD,Clubs in IITD are more active and have representatives for each culture from every hostel.

That means one or two representatives each for Drama, dance,literary club,Music,Quizzing, Hindi Samiti, Student welfare committee.

That sums upto 10 students from each hostel in every year. That means 130 students of a year have Position of Responsibilities in cultural extra Curriculars.

Every hostel has a band and a dance group, they practice and need to take part in the inter hostel competitions.

Sports Culture:

The sports in IITs are also more encouraged and All IITs have more developed football,Cricket,hockey, athletics ground which is at par than most NITs. In Some IITs, it is even compulsory to play one sport.

Also, each hostel have a vice captain of 2nd year and a captain from 3rd year and a team for every sport, which makes IIT very good in terms of sports.

As a result of which, the level of Inter IIT and Inter NIT is quite different.

Research :-

The professors at IITs focus also on research a lot as compared to NITs.

Startups Culture and Placements :-

IITs are no doubt excelling in giving out Startups and better Core and Non Core placements. IITs have produced some of the best startups ever like Flipkart etc.

Infrastructure:

The infra in IITs, the mailing system(the webmail) , the management of studies and putting everything on online portal (moodle) is something which would take NITs years to develop.

Exposure :

The exposure that the student in IITs gets is far more than he will get in any NIT.

IIT's are superior than NIT's being different in the following ways:

- Ranking. IIT's fills most of the slots in the list of top 15 colleges in India for   Engineering Top 100 Engineering Colleges in India whereas most of the NIT's occupy the slot after that.

- Requirement for Admission. For Bachelors one has to have very good rank in IIT-JEE(said to be the toughest of all exams in the world) and also good marks in 12th standard for IIT whereas NIT give admission on the basis of AIEEE ranks.

- Students- As said above when you have tough screening policy for admissions you are supposed to get filled with top students. At this point I would also like to mention students in NIT's are good as well because to get into NIT's you need to have higher ranks in AIEEE which is competitive enough. So i would give equal marks to both of them in this respect.

- The quality of professor, IIT's have best engineering faculty in India. I am not saying NIT's doesn't have good professor but we are trying to be relative here.

- Amount of research work, IIT's have good amount of research work being carried out jointly by professors and students. They do projects for esteemed institution like ISRO, DRDO, BARC etc. Even NIT's do research with them but not at the same magnitude.

- Infrastructure and Funding. IIT's have better Infrastructure with a spacious campus, good research labs etc. and are well funded by central government.

- IIT is globally known, any college accepting Indians as students would have heard of IIT this may or may not be the case with NIT's.

- Placements- Top Notch companies prefer IITian's over NITian's and also salaries are well differentiated.

Sorry mate but I can't find any point on which NIT's can beat IIT's. IIT is like Mecca for engineering students.

Thanks.

iit get more national level importance,name and fame. chances of more salary are in iit but if you some specific interest dont think about salary